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title: This command did not at all please the old woman, though, of course,… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This command did not at all please the old woman, though, of course, she made no objections to the sultan. Who acts: command. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 107

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This command did not at all please the old woman, though, of course, she made no objections to the sultan.

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**Who acts:** command · **What happens:** not do, make · **To what, where:** objections

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (command), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3282:22:107
# text = This command did not at all please the old woman, though, of course, she made no objections to the sultan.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
7	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	10	discourse	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	though	though	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	objections	objection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past | this command |  |  |  |  | at the old woman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | Command | no objections |  |  |  | to the sultan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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